Juan de Urrede explained

Juan de Urrede (c.1430-after 1482, Salamanca, Spain) or Juan de Urreda was a Flemish singer and composer active in Spain in the service of the Duke of Alba and King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. He was born Johannes de Wreede in Bruges.^[1]

He composed several settings of the Pange Lingua Gloriosi Corporis Mysterium, mostly based on the original Mozarabic melody composed by St. Thomas Aquinas. One of his compositions for four voices was widely performed in the sixteenth century, and became the basis for a number of keyboard works and masses by Spanish composers. Although he wrote sacred songs, he was better known for courtly songs.^[2]

Works

Urrede's music has been recorded and issued on media including:

Cancionero de Segovia

Pange Lingua

• El Cancionero de la Catedral de Segovia, The Segovia Cathedral Songbook, Ensemble Daedalus, Roberto Festa

Nunca fue pena mayor (Never was there greater sorrow). Chanson. c.1470 for instruments

• from the Cancionero de la Colombina 1460-1490
• from Harmonice Musices Odhecaton Venice 1501
• Ens Les Flamboyants. Rosa Dominguez voice, Viva Biancaluna Biffi fiddle, Jane Achtmann fiddle/viola d'arco, Irene Klein viola da gamba, Norihisa Sugawara lute/fiddle, Giovanna Pessi harp, Michael Form, Luis Beduschi, Gerit Kropfl recorders, Rogerio Goncalves percussion
• Zefiro Torna. Eufoda 1343
• Montserrat Figueras, Hesperion XX / Jordi Savall. Astree 9954
• Montserrat Figueras, Hesperion XX / Luiz Alves de Silva. Fontalis 8763
• Ferre, Binchois Ensemble / D.Vellard. EMI Virgin Classics 567-545359
• Hilliard Ensemble. EMI Virgin Classics 653-561394
• Waverly Consort / Jaffee. EMI Virgin Classics 621-561815
• Newberry Consort. Harmonia Mundi France 7907083
• Larry Hill, Gregory Tambornino. Meridian 84406
• Nancy Knowles, Frank Wallace. Centaur 2109

Donde estas que non te veo for voice and instrumentsfrom the Cancionero de la Colombina 1460-1490

• Montserrat Figueras s, Hesperion XX / Jordi Savall. Astree 9954

Muy triste sera mi vida from the Cancionero de la Colombina 1460-1490

• Hesperion XX / Jordi Savall. Astree 9954^[3]

Notes and References

1. Book: Queen Isabel I of Castile: power, patronage, persona. 169. Weissberger, Barbara F.. 2008.
2. Book: The church music of fifteenth-century Spain. Kreitner, Kenneth. 2004.
3. Web site: Juan de Urrede. 17 February 2011.